Power

Power analysis/Sample Size determination

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(statistics)
• Sample size determination from Wikipedia
• Power and Sample Size Determination http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~st571-1/10-power-2.pdf#page=12
• http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/AnesShortCourse/HypothesisTestingPart1.pdf#page=40
• Power analysis and sample size calculation for Agriculture (pwr, lmSupport, simr packages are used)
• Why Within-Subject Designs Require Fewer Participants than Between-Subject Designs

Power analysis for default Bayesian t-tests

http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2016/01/power-analysis-for-default-bayesian-t.html

Using simulation for power analysis: an example based on a stepped wedge study design

https://www.rdatagen.net/post/using-simulation-for-power-analysis-an-example/

Power analysis and sample size calculation for Agriculture

http://r-video-tutorial.blogspot.com/2017/07/power-analysis-and-sample-size.html

Power calculation for proportions (shiny app)

https://juliasilge.shinyapps.io/power-app/

Derive the formula/manual calculation

• One-sample 1-sided test, One sample 2-sided test
• Two-sample 2-sided T test ([math]\displaystyle{ n }[/math] is the sample size in each group)

[math]\displaystyle{ \begin{align} Power & = P_{\mu_1-\mu_2 = \Delta}(\frac{\bar{X}_1 - \bar{X}_2}{\sqrt{\sigma^2/n + \sigma^2/n}} \gt Z_{\alpha /2}) + P_{\mu_1-\mu_2 = \Delta}(\frac{\bar{X}_1 - \bar{X}_2}{\sqrt{\sigma^2/n + \sigma^2/n}} \lt -Z_{\alpha /2}) \\ & \approx P_{\mu_1-\mu_2 = \Delta}(\frac{\bar{X}_1 - \bar{X}_2}{\sqrt{\sigma^2/n + \sigma^2/n}} \gt Z_{\alpha /2}) \\ & = P_{\mu_1-\mu_2 = \Delta}(\frac{\bar{X}_1 - \bar{X}_2 - \Delta}{\sqrt{2 * \sigma^2/n}} \gt Z_{\alpha /2} - \frac{\Delta}{\sqrt{2 * \sigma^2/n}}) \\ & = \Phi(-(Z_{\alpha /2} - \frac{\Delta}{\sqrt{2 * \sigma^2/n}})) \\ & = 1 - \beta =\Phi(Z_\beta) \end{align} }[/math]

Therefore

[math]\displaystyle{ \begin{align} Z_{\beta} &= - Z_{\alpha/2} + \frac{\Delta}{\sqrt{2 * \sigma^2/n}} \\ Z_{\beta} + Z_{\alpha/2} & = \frac{\Delta}{\sqrt{2 * \sigma^2/n}} \\ 2 * (Z_{\beta} + Z_{\alpha/2})^2 * \sigma^2/\Delta^2 & = n \\ n & = 2 * (Z_{\beta} + Z_{\alpha/2})^2 * \sigma^2/\Delta^2 \end{align} }[/math]

# alpha = .05, delta = 200, n = 79.5, sigma=450
1 - pnorm(1.96 - 200*sqrt(79.5)/(sqrt(2)*450)) + pnorm(-1.96 - 200*sqrt(79.5)/(sqrt(2)*450))
# [1] 0.8
pnorm(-1.96 - 200*sqrt(79.5)/(sqrt(2)*450))
# [1] 9.58e-07
1 - pnorm(1.96 - 200*sqrt(79.5)/(sqrt(2)*450)) 
# [1] 0.8

Calculating required sample size in R and SAS

pwr package is used. For two-sided test, the formula for sample size is

[math]\displaystyle{ n_{\mbox{each group}} = \frac{2 * (Z_{\alpha/2} + Z_\beta)^2 * \sigma^2}{\Delta^2} = \frac{2 * (Z_{\alpha/2} + Z_\beta)^2}{d^2} }[/math]

where [math]\displaystyle{ Z_\alpha }[/math] is value of the Normal distribution which cuts off an upper tail probability of [math]\displaystyle{ \alpha }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ \Delta }[/math] is the difference sought, [math]\displaystyle{ \sigma }[/math] is the presumed standard deviation of the outcome, [math]\displaystyle{ \alpha }[/math] is the type 1 error, [math]\displaystyle{ \beta }[/math] is the type II error and (Cohen's) d is the effect size - difference between the means divided by the pooled standard deviation.

# An example from http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/c13.pdf#page=3
# Method 1.
require(pwr)
pwr.t.test(d=200/450, power=.8, sig.level=.05,
           type="two.sample", alternative="two.sided")
#
#     Two-sample t test power calculation 
#
#              n = 80.4
#              d = 0.444
#      sig.level = 0.05
#          power = 0.8
#    alternative = two.sided
#
# NOTE: n is number in *each* group

# Method 2.
2*(qnorm(.975) + qnorm(.8))^2*450^2/(200^2)
# [1] 79.5
2*(1.96 + .84)^2*450^2 / (200^2)
# [1] 79.4

And stats::power.t.test() function.

power.t.test(n = 79.5, delta = 200, sd = 450, sig.level = .05,
             type ="two.sample", alternative = "two.sided")
#
#     Two-sample t test power calculation 
#
#              n = 79.5
#          delta = 200
#             sd = 450
#      sig.level = 0.05
#          power = 0.795
#    alternative = two.sided
#
# NOTE: n is number in *each* group

R package related to power analysis

CRAN Task View: Design of Experiments

• powerAnalysis w/o vignette
• powerbydesign w/o vignette
• easypower w/ vignette
• pwr w/ vignette, https://www.statmethods.net/stats/power.html. The reference is Cohen's book.
• powerlmm Power Analysis for Longitudinal Multilevel/Linear Mixed-Effects Models.
• ssize.fdr w/o vignette
• samplesize w/o vignette
• ssizeRNA w/ vignette
• power.t.test(), power.anova.test(), power.prop.test() from stats package

Russ Lenth Java applets

https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/Power/index.html

Bootstrap method

The upstrap Crainiceanu & Crainiceanu, Biostatistics 2018

Multiple Testing Case

Optimal Sample Size for Multiple Testing The Case of Gene Expression Microarrays

Unbalanced randomization

Can unbalanced randomization improve power?

Yes, unbalanced randomization can improve power, in some situations